sustentar

Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sus.tənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [sus.tenˈtaɾ]

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentí, past participle sustentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to sustain (to provide for or nourish)
2. (transitive) to sustain (to keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support)

• sustentador

• “sustentar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sustentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “sustentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sustentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin sustentāre.

• Hyphenation: sus‧ten‧tar

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustentei, past participle sustentado)

1. (transitive) to sustain
2. (transitive) to support, underpin

• suster

• “sustentar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sustentar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “sustentar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “sustentar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “sustentar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “sustentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin sustentāre.

• IPA^(key): /sustenˈtaɾ/ [sus.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sus‧ten‧tar

sustentar (first-person singular present sustento, first-person singular preterite sustenté, past participle sustentado)

1. (transitive) to sustain, support, underpin (physically)

   Synonym: sostener

2. (transitive) to sustain, support, hold (i.e. provide resources)
3. (transitive, figuratively) to support, underpin, uphold
4. (reflexive) to be supported, be underpinned, be sustained
   • 2017 May 25, -, “El sagrado derecho de decir que no”, in El Nacional‎^[1]:

     un profesor como ese podría echar por tierra “los principios” sobre los cuales se sustenta el resentimiento encumbrado.

     a teacher like that could overthrow "the principles" on which high resentment is based.

• “sustentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024